Rethinking College, a Series of Articles
Our society is saturated with a common thought regarding success, finance, security and social acceptance: Go to college. Go to the biggest, most expensive college that will accept you. Attend at all costs. Get a grant, a loan, borrow from parents – just get to that college. A little debt now is worth a lot of money later.
I’ll be challenging this view while showing that the numbers often just don’t add up. For a lot of kids, going to college is the worst thing they can do, regardless of the tired and overused social cliché. This is the first part of a three-part series on a rational approach to getting a college education and preparing for success.
Below are the titles of forthcoming articles here at Smart Personal Development.
- Is College Overrated?
- Don’t Go Into Debt for College
- 7 Ways to Get College Money
- Go to College for the Education
Note: I’m not a college naysayer. I’m actually enrolled with a state college, studying business, and marketing. I’m absolutely loving it, and would probably pay my way even if there was no future financial incentive. So what’s my point about college? It’s one that can save you thousands, whether you are a student or a parent. To read the articles, just subscribe below, and I’ll make sure you get the guides.
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Pingback by Don’t Go To College “Just Because” — September 7, 2008 @ 3:53 am
Your blog seems covering all the required parts. financial planning is a must and start very early to over come almost all the future problems like study, retirements, home and so on… when our people going to get more aware about this.
In my opinion, financial planning requirement should be subject from school level and companies provide the required training during induction for new employees… this will at least give him and awareness of pension plans…
what do you think about that?
Sherin – Investinternals
http://investinternals.blogspot.com
Comment by Sherin — September 10, 2008 @ 1:22 pm